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Windows ScreenSaver Goes On While Using A Game Controller
fjl:
It's a windows Screensaver. The simple Windows XP logo. The screen saver is left on all night the only thing that goes to sleep are the hard drives. After 30 minutes of inactivity they're set to turn off and restart only if access to them is required. This has actually prolonged the life of my hard drives cause before they would always be on and my hard drives would only last about 6 months or so. The ones I have now have lasted longer than 2 years and are still going.
I still need a fix for this though. :'(
loadman:
--- Quote from: efjayel on December 03, 2007, 03:41:55 pm ---It's a windows Screensaver. The simple Windows XP logo. The screen saver is left on all night the only thing that goes to sleep are the hard drives. After 30 minutes of inactivity they're set to turn off and restart only if access to them is required. This has actually prolonged the life of my hard drives cause before they would always be on and my hard drives would only last about 6 months or so. The ones I have now have lasted longer than 2 years and are still going.
I still need a fix for this though. :'(
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Well in the meantime you have a fix if you use MaLa ;)
SGT:
--- Quote from: efjayel on December 03, 2007, 03:41:55 pm ---I still need a fix for this though. :'(
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I hate to be thick-headed, but I don't for the life of me see why you still need a fix. Fine, if you don't want to run a front-end (which can't be more trouble that starting mame). Loadman offered to compile his program into an executable. A batch file could start his program which disables the screen saver, it then loads mame, then re-enables the screen saver when you're through with mame. Starting the batch file is not one step more than starting mame would be. What more could you want besides a Microsoft patch for the Windows screensaver monitoring routine? :dunno
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: efjayel on December 03, 2007, 03:41:55 pm ---It's a windows Screensaver. The simple Windows XP logo. The screen saver is left on all night the only thing that goes to sleep are the hard drives. After 30 minutes of inactivity they're set to turn off and restart only if access to them is required. This has actually prolonged the life of my hard drives cause before they would always be on and my hard drives would only last about 6 months or so. The ones I have now have lasted longer than 2 years and are still going.
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You'll see a big difference on the electric bill if you put the monitor to sleep as well. I stand by my statement that the screen saver is only barely useful nowadays and if you're leaving your computer on all night, even if you don't put the monitor to sleep, it takes literally a split-second to just turn off the monitor. As a matter of fact, I turned my monitor off and then on while typing this and it only took me an extra three seconds.
--- Quote ---I still need a fix for this though. :'(
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I'm with SGT on this statement. I can understand not wanted to go the front-end route for a desktop computer, but I honestly can't see why just turning off the screen saver temporarily - which can't take more than 10 ~ 15 seconds* - is not an option. I have to turn crap on and off all the time but it's not the end of the world. Beyond just reconfiguring the screensaver options or running a simple batch file, it becomes an exercise in using convoluted solutions to solve a simple problem.
*If it does, you need more memory.
fjl:
I'll still go for that batch file if you want to do it loadman. As for running Mala, I find it has some weird effects that I'm trying to fix so I'd rather not use that.
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